Collective Artist Talk: A Comparative Dialogue Act

With: Andrea Mancini, Caterina Malavolti and Alessandro Cugola from Every Island, Thomas Lea Clarke 

Moderated by Léon Kruijswijk

Framework: Andrea Mancini & Every Island: A Comparative Dialogue Act

Language: EN

Access: Included in the admission ticket

Booking required:

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To reflect on A Comparative Dialogue Act and its residency programme, Mudam organises an artist talk with Andrea Mancini, Caterina Malavolti and Alessandro Cugola from Every Island, and the final guest artist Thomas Lea Clarke, moderated by curator Léon Kruijswijk.

In a conversation taking place in the exhibition, Mancini, Malavolti and Cugola will dive deeper into the trajectory of the installation that premiered at the Luxembourg Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale and travelled to Mudam for a second iteration.

They will give conceptual and technical insights, while sharing their reflections on the evolvement of the sound library and the artwork’s live programme. As a guest artist, Clarke will explain more about his practice as well as his experience of working with and in the installation.

After the talk, a thirty-minute break is scheduled before Clarke’s performance starts at 16:30.

Biographies: 

Andrea Mancini (b. 1989) is a Brussels-based, Italian Luxembourgish artist and musician. His work explores the intersections of sound, space, and materiality, transforming overlooked materials into resonating, performative surfaces. Using sensorial mediums, sculptural and spatial interventions, he creates environments that invite active engagement and embodied listening. His installations blur the boundaries between architecture, sound and presence – spaces that respond to movement, vibration and proximity. Whether activated by himself or others, they become sites of sensory tension, dialogue and shared experience, challenging how we inhabit and perceive the built world.

Every Island is a collective founded in Brussels in 2021. Their spatial research focuses on the role of performativity in architecture, which translates into volatile building projects, design and installations. Each projects develops space to enable unforeseen uses, thus questioning inherited binary and normative models. Space becomes a design tool to negotiate an expanded common ground, where perception, action and projection operate as a single field. The work of the collective has been shown in several institutions and performative arts festivals, including International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2024), Bozar, Brussels (2023), Santarcangelo Festival dei Teatri, Santarcangelo di Romagna (2022) and VIERNULVIER, Ghent (2022), and Mudam Luxembourg (2022). It currently consists of Martina Genovesi, Alessandro Cugola, Caterina Malavolti, Juliane Seehawer and Astrid Lykke Nielsen.

Thomas Lea Clarke is a sound artist and electronic musician, born in Luxembourg and based in Berlin. He has released music on multiple record labels including Optimo Music, Offen Music, Neubau and Knekelhuis. He also runs Phase Group, a record label and platform dedicated to experimental and avant-garde electronic music. His work has been presented in a range of contexts across Europe, including exhibitions and performances at Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg; Hošek Contemporary, Berlin; Silent Green, Berlin; Berghain, Berlin; Tramway, Glasgow; Fuse Art Space, Bradford; and Cafe OTO, London. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he continues to develop his interest in the poetics of sound, spatiality, and the political and cultural dimensions of listening.